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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: rogue tree objects, how to diagnose?
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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:20:35 -0500

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:12:06PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
> >  * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
> > fatal: unable to read tree c9ee57c5c20c3b7a2d7784a4172aef8b34c3a844
> > davem@sunset:~/src/GIT/net-next-2.6$ git show c9ee57c5c20c3b7a2d7784a4172aef8b34c3a844
> > fatal: bad object c9ee57c5c20c3b7a2d7784a4172aef8b34c3a844
> > davem@sunset:~/src/GIT/net-next-2.6$ 
> > 
> > Now, what's funny is that this tree object does exist in my
> > tree on master.kernel.org:
> 
> "bad object" is about an object that did not parse correctly, as opposed
> to one that is missing. So it's possible that your repository is
> corrupted.

I see.

I GC and repack my local repos a lot, maybe it happened during
one of those.

Thanks a lot Jeff, I'll try to fix the corruption using the
suggestions you gave me.